HB4573 SFAT TAYLOR #1 3-12

Hager  7871

Senator Taylor moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill 4573—A Bill to amend the code of Wes Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding two new sections, designated §18-5-55 and 18-5-56, relating to relating to education generally; requiring the Department of Human Services to provide to the West Virginia Department of Education and county boards of education information regarding available post-secondary transition programs and services for students with current or former foster care experience; specifying minimum information that can be shared; allowing the Department of Human Services to continue sharing information directly with students in foster care and their foster families or legal guardians in certain instances; requiring county boards of education to ensure that information received is shared with appropriate school personnel and used for student informational purposes only; clarifying that new provisions do not require disclosure of foster care status in violation of state or federal privacy laws requiring vocational education agriculture programs to be offered to all students; making findings; allowing termination of a vocational education agriculture program only if enrollment is the lowest enrollment of all vocational education programs; and requiring if a county school district terminates its vocational education agriculture program that the district submit a report to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability explaining the reasoning for terminating its program.

Adopted

Rejected